Symphony is a web-based content management framework (CMF) that enables users to create and manage websites and web applications of all shapes and sizes -- from the simplest of blogs to news sites and social networks.
Symphony is open source software, built with PHP, that combines a flexible, open architecture with XSLT to give users control over data structures, field types, parameters, templates, events and extensions that allows flexible and efficient development of many types of sites.
The code is available as a ZIP download from the Symphony community site or as a Git repository from the official Symphony GitHub repository.
In production for Wrox Press, Symphony Start to Finish will be the first comprehensive guide to building websites and web applications with Symphony.
On October 14th, at the Web Directions Conference in Sydney, Australia, Symphony CMS was awarded the McFarlane Prize for excellence in web design, for its appropriate use of technology, for its design aesthetics and for its impact on the web. Judging was also based on the following criteria:
- Accessibility
- Usability
- Design
- Coding
Airlock, a London based digital agency, was a primary sponsor of the Symphony CMS platform.
- PHP 5.2 or above
- PHP's LibXML module, with the XSLT extension enabled (--with-xsl)
- MySQL 4.1 or above
- An Apache or Litespeed webserver
- Apache's mod_rewrite module or equivalent